Joel Barry Pollak (born 25 April 1977) is a South African-American conservative political commentator, writer, and attorney. He currently serves as the senior-editor-at-large for Breitbart News.[1][2] In 2010, he was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress from Illinois’s 9th congressional district, losing to incumbent Democrat Jan Schakowsky with 31% of the vote.[3]
Pollak was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Johannesburg, South Africa. His parents moved to the United States in 1977, and became United States citizen in 1987.[4] He grew up in the Chicago suburbs, principally in Skokie.[5] He attended Solomon Schechter Day School and Niles North High School,[6] where he was the class valedictorian in 1995.[7] Pollak attended Harvard College, and graduated magna cum laude in 1999, with a joint degree in Social Studies and Environmental Science & Public Policy (ESPP).[7] He earned a master’s degree in Jewish Studies from the University of Cape Town in 2006. From 2002 to 2006, he was chief speechwriter for Tony Leon, leader of the Democratic Alliance, and is a family friend of Leon’s successor Helen Zille.[8] He then enrolled at Harvard Law School. He married Julia Inge Pollak (née Bertelsmann) in December 2009.[9]
Pollak was politically liberal in his early life, being active in groups which he later described as ”the forebears of today’s ANTIFA or Occupy movement”.[10] His political views began to shift toward the right after several experiences as a student in South Africa which he described as waking him up ”from a left-wing worldview”.[10]
Pollak’s first book,[15] The Kasrils Affair: Jews and Minority Politics in the New South Africa (Double Storey, 2009), is based on his master’s thesis, and uses debates involving the Jewish community, particularly Ronnie Kasrils, as a window onto minority politics in general in post-apartheid South Africa. His second book,[16] Don’t Tell Me Words Don’t Matter: How Rhetoric Won the 2008 Presidential Election (HC Press, 2009), is self-published, and describes the role played by speeches in Barack Obama’s victory over John McCain. Pollak’s third book, See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths The Left Can’t Handle,[17] was released in 2016. He co-authored How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution with Larry Schweikart in 2017.[18]
Pollak has written numerous op-eds and articles. While in law school, he wrote for the Harvard Law Record, and alleged on his blog that Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat faked his blood donation for the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks.
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